“Apple has once again raised the stakes in their continuing cat and mouse game with unlockers by implementing a boot level signature check in iOS 4.2.1 that will cause the device to fail to boot if the baseband firmware is not correct,” TiPb reports.
“If you plan on unlocking your iPhone it is recommended that you hold off on installing 4.2.1 as there is no current method available to maintain an unlockable baseband,” TiPb reports.
More info and links in the full article here.
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Thieves & pirates belong on Android… get off my platform!
Unlocking ≠ Jailbreaking
I am fully against jailbreaking, but I want to move my iPhone to a different carrier. Apple made that harder.
Very good by Apple.
Apple should brick all hacked phones or ban them from accessing iTunes and Appstor and block them from getting any iOS updates.
If you hack your phone you are obviously not happy with Apple and you should go and wank over Google Linux instead. Don’t like Apple DON’T buy Apple!!!
To repeat GRANDxADMIRAL’S COMMENT:
Unlocking ≠ Jailbreaking Unlocking ≠ Jailbreaking Unlocking ≠ Jailbreaking Unlocking ≠ Jailbreaking Unlocking ≠ Jailbreaking Unlocking ≠ Jailbreaking
Do you get it yet?
I see the Apple hack Karlv is still here. Dont worry Karlv, hackers will beat Apple’s latest attempt to stop freedom. They will never, EVER give up the fight.
I jailbreak my iPhone so I can personalize it. I like theme-ing and changing to looks of my phone. also there are a few features that I like such as iAnnounce, 5 icon dock, Bytefont (theme related), covert (private browsing), etc… Apple is slow to implement features. The just now with iOS 4 allowed pictures behind the icons. Why not have a section in setting to change the color pallet? I know there are pirates who Jailbreak there phones to save 99 cents. But to say all jailbreakers are pirates is a bit much.
Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users to gain root access to the command line of the operating system thus removing any limitations imposed upon them by Apple. Once jailbroken, iPhone users are able to download many extensions and themes previously unavailable through the App Store via installers such as Cydia and generally exercise complete ownership of their purchased product including installing non Apple operating systems such as Linux. A jailbroken iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch running iOS is still able to use the App Store and iTunes.
Jailbreaking is different from SIM unlocking, which, once completed, means that the mobile phone will accept any SIM without restriction on, for example, the country or network operator of the owners choice. Jailbreaking, according to Apple, can void Apple’s warranty on the device. There is active debate whether or not this is an unlawful restriction under the United States Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act. The jailbreaking process can be quickly reversed by restoring the device in iTunes.
– wiki
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here is some info re the legalities from the
Library of Congress.
– http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/sept10/jailbreak.html
Is there any logical, intelligent reason why we are debating an issue that is absolutely irrelevant to the subject of the article (unlocking)?
It seems to me that most don’t understand hat the little “≠ ” means. It means “NOT EQUAL TO”.
Therefore, when you see “Unlocking ≠ Jailbreaking”, that means that Jailbreaking and Unlocking are TWO DIFFERENT (and completely unrelated) THINGS.
Could we please discuss the subject at hand (unlocking)? And leave the jailbreaking discussion for that other thread on jailbreaking? PLEASE???
Why can’t Apple sell unlocked iPhones throughout the world, it is like dealing with the MOB, they make us an offer we can’t refuse. I’ve been a long time Apple and Mac(intosh) user since 1990. Today money sharks are migrating towards Apple in order to gain as much profit as possible on the back of their loyal customers, Apple is no longer what it was, sociability is replaced by greed in order to become the new Microsoft, inventiveness and renewal will make place for accounting! It’s all ’bout the money
It’s all ’bout the dum dum…
@Bolleke “like dealing with the MOB”…. talk about reaching for a metaphor. Yea because Apple come to your place of business and says you have to pay them 20% of whatever you are making for protection whether you need or not…
You do realize Steve Jobs does come to your house while your wife is making a dinner and threaten you to buy their product/service.
To rhetoric.assassin: I admit it’s a bit over the top, you’re right!
As customers however, we haven’t got much freedom of choice, have we? Being with a good cell phone operator it’s frustrating being forced to switch to what for me is a poorer choice, just because it is your obligation if you wan’t an iPhone.
Remember Apple’s 1984 commercial? A huge contrast!
As I posted at the source article:
Please kids, by all means abandon Apple and go Android. Play on a wannabe phone. Kill off your phone’s security. Have a malware party! Enjoy rubbing elbows with the rubbish of the app world.
Seriously: I can see the benefit of hacking to hackers. However, this is excellent news for the security serious. It means there are no more opportunities for drive-by iPhone unlocking and infecting. Not gonna happen no more, no more. I like it. (Drive-by iPhone lock ups? We shall see).
Nevertheless, I expect the future holds further iPhone hacks.
Heh…..’freedom’?
It’s a PHONE, for fuck’s sake.
Don’t like the rules? Then don’t buy the phone.
It’s that easy. You don’t buy Chutes and Ladders, my cranky wankers Taz and Bunches et al, only to use the pieces from Candyland and then complain when you’re not getting to have as much fun.
Lord have mercy, you people are dense, and all in the name of ‘freedom’. You’d be annoying if you weren’t so entertaining.